Guild Wars 2

Look, I know darn well that if you can filter out words and alter the text (bad word filter), you can certainly do the same thing for the domain names of the gold sellers. So when they send their spam emails, PMs and map shouts, their beloved URL is filtered out. It is not that big of a deal to add their domain names to a filter file as they pop up.

Why hasn’t this been implemented already?

likely because the first time such a filter is introduced they will work around it. The sheer amount of ways to write an URL make it nearly impossible to make the list. and surely, once you finally managed to get ALL these ways into the filter… they will change their name :P

vvvvvv.guildwars2.com
vvwvv.guildwars2.com
and this list goes on and on … and then when you finally got them all…

www.guild-wars2.com you can start all over…

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So best thing to do, when you see one of these buggers, right click their name and report them for goldselling !

Arghore.8340:

likely because the first time such a filter is introduced they will work around it. The sheer amount of ways to write an URL make it nearly impossible to make the list. and surely, once you finally managed to get ALL these ways into the filter… they will change their name :P

vvvvvv.guildwars2.com
vvwvv.guildwars2.com
and this list goes on and on … and then when you finally got them all…

www.guild-wars2.com you can start all over…

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So best thing to do, when you see one of these buggers, right click their name and report them for goldselling !

Agreed

I wasn’t referring to the “www” part, but the actual domain name. This forces them to purchase a new domain each time theirs is added to the filter. I already report and block them but this is something that could help as well.

I think they had such a filter in GW1 … realy, while I just showed 2 possibilities on how to write www. just think of howmany more there would be for the actual url. including spaces, 2 spaces, points in it, etc and so on…

It’s not that I think your line of thinking is wrong btw. the idea is good, it’s just, an uphill battle that would not end. And a new ‘url’ costs about 2$ if not less, so while its a good idea, there would be no actual results … banning their accounts is a lot more expensive, and we don’t cost any extra resources. Anet gave us the weapon, we should pick it up and fight